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(^(^ssia.'] i. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 2G7 



DOTTBTFUL SPECIES, 



C. JAVANiCA, ZzT^w.; _DC. Pro^r. ii. 490, Wali. Cat. 5-309 (C. Bacillus, ea.€r/;j. ; 

 tioxb. FL Ind. ii. 337. Wt Icones, t. 252) differs from C 7i^5<?5(i V its sinaJler and 

 more obtuse leaflets. It is sometimes cultivated within our limits aud is wild in the 

 Malay isles. A plant gathered by Griffith near Prome is either a variety with leaflets 

 densely pubescent beneath or a new species. The inflorescence of both this and the 

 Malay plant corresponds with that of C. nodma. 



104 CVNOSKETRA, Linn. 



Erect unarmed trees. Leaves with few coriaceous odd-pinnate leaflets. 

 -t lowers copious^ minute, in axillary corymbs or racemes. Cal^x with a very 

 s^ort tube and subbasal disk ; divisions 4-5, oblong, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 oblanceolate, equal, not exserted. Stamem 10, or in C polyandra indefinite, 

 nlaments erect, free, filiform, exserted ; anthers small, oblong, versatile, dehis- 

 cing longitudinally. Ovary sessile or short-stalked, 2-ovuled ; style filiform, 

 «ngma capitate. . Pod turgid, oblique-oblong, with very thick indehiscent 

 ^ually rugose tough somewhat fleshy valves. Seed exaltuminous, central, 

 filing up the cavity. — Disteib. Species 20, spread eveiywhere in the tropics. 



StTBGEN. 1. Eucynometra. Stamens 10. 



^- C. ramiflora, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 500 ; leaflets 2-4, lucemes 

 sually solitaij corymbose axillary from the branchlets, pod turgid rugose. 

 ^^<jfA, Prodr. 29^ ; Dalz. 4* Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 83 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 315. 0. 

 cauhflora, IValL Cat. 5810, ex imrte. 



^ Western Pexixsula and Cei'lon.— Distuib. Malay isles, Philippines, N. Aus- 



f ^^^ft^^^ 1 -jugate and 2-jugate mixed or often all 1 -jugate, subsessile, if 2-jugate 

 obt*" ^^^^^%^^^^ Thwaites) the upper Jimeh the largest, oblong, subacute very 



^ue, 3-6 in, long; petiole ihU Jn. Eacemes few-flowered, corymbose, sessiJo 

 ^ »J the axils of the leaves of the branchlets, with the primary axis not prcdue^cl, 

 ^eiy geminate ; outer scales ovate, ^-^ in.; pedicels ^-^ in. '^ ' ' * 



Y' ^'^^^ r^g'^&e, ^-1 in. long, subsessile. 

 thp r-^' ^'^^^^'^^'^e^ Wall. Cat. o817, f^p. ; leaflets all bijugate not so unequal as m 

 ^^yugate form of the tvpe much smaller 1-3 in. long more ol'tase and thicker, 



Sepals ^ in. Pods 



ersand pod smaller, the latter pointed and very deeply wrinkled. C. bijuga, 

 P^nog^^ il/ij. Fior, Ind. Bat. i. 78.— AVestern Peninsula, Pegu, Tenasserim. 



covv^' v' *^avancorica, Bedd. Fl Sylv. t. 316 ; leaflets 2, flowers in sessile 

 Onibs from the branchlets, pod flat smooth. 



'^y* TiiAVANcoRK and in the Carkatic near Tinnevelly, alt. 2-4000 ft., Beddomc. 

 KlaLr ^6 i".; leaflets always unijugMte, oblique oblong-lanceolate, Mi]>;.cute, 



centrT^' ?--3 in long. Bacemes solitary, copious, rounded, lew-flowered, with the 

 iSba/ti ?'® '''^^ =^t 'ill produced ; bracts ^ : 



StoootVr"*' ^»ally reflexed. Filaments t 

 '-^> hrm, semicircular, sessile, 1-1;^ in. 



4,A ®' lasequifolia, A. Gray Bot. U.S. Expl Kipedit. 473 ; leaflets 

 Wnon^^^"^ in very dense oblong sessile solitary or geminate racemes from the 



s erecto-patent, ^-^ in. 

 twice the length of the sepals. Fod flat, 

 long. 



'^^^chlets, pod flat smooth. 



^^^^^CA, iV/a2;^^fl;;/._DjgTRiB. Philippines, Cuming. 1297. 

 ^^m ^^^coriaceous, rigid, glabrous, oblique, obovate-oblong, subequal, m our 

 in u^^^?~^ i^- long. Flowers in very dense oblong sessile cone-like racemes, 1^ *> 

 "g> the central axis produced ; outer bracts round-cordate, obtuse, \ in. ; pedic 



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